pdefreitas/vanillasso

A way to connect your Laravel application into Vanilla Forum via jsConnect.

Laravel-VanillaSSO

This package allows you to use jsConnect of Vanilla Forums in your Laravel 4 application., _(*1)

SSO (Single Sign-on) will save your time if you want to implement a forum on your Laravel 4 application., _(*2)

The package is availabe on Packagist https://packagist.org/packages/pdefreitas/vanillasso, _(*3)

If you want to implement it into your Laravel installation:, _(*4)

1) Edit the composer.json file, _(*5)

"require": {
 ...
 "pdefreitas/vanillasso": "dev-master",
 ...
},

2) Update the composer, _(*6)

$ composer update, _(*7)

3) Edit the providers Array() in app.php (app/config/app.php), _(*8)

'providers' => array(
...
 'Pdefreitas\VanillaSSO\VanillaSSOServiceProvider',
...
),

4) Publish the vanillasso.php config file to make it accessible in app/config/packages/pdefreitas/vanillasso/vanillasso.php, _(*9)

 php artisan config:publish pdefreitas/vanillasso

Routes

Here is an example of a route that you may use (app/routes.php):, _(*10)

Route::group(array('before' => 'auth'), function()
{
    Route::get('/jsonp', 'VanillaSSOController@jsonResponse');
});

Configuration

You can directly edit config\vanillasso.php or add it to your application., _(*11)

The configuration file looks like this:, _(*12)

return array(
    //The string client ID that you set up in the jsConnect settings page.
    "client_id" => "",
    //The string secred that you set up in the jsConnect settings page.
    "secret" => ""
);

Please note that this plugin supports MD5 and SHA1 hashes from JSconnect., _(*13)

License

Check LICENSE for more information., _(*14)

Credits

I want to thank Todd Burry from Vanilla Forums. This file helped producing this package: https://github.com/vanilla/jsConnectPHP/blob/master/functions.jsconnect.php, _(*15)

Hints

If you use Vanilla 2.1 there is an annoying bug that you have to alter a table in order to jsConnect 1.4.1 be supported:, _(*16)

ALTER TABLE GDN_UserAuthenticationProvider ADD IsDefault BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE;